Biology Quote by Francisco J. Ayala

No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

Mutations are exciting, there aren't nearly enough of them.

— Doug Stanhope

If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being…

— Frank B. Salisbury

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

— Walter Raleigh

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed…

— Lynn Margulis

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for…

— Samuel Wilson

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We…

— Walter Gilbert

The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

Though we come into the world with thousands of years of genetic data, the evolutionary process never stops.

— Ruben Papian

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

— Iain McGilchrist